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Woman Who Allegedly Filed False Police Report in Court

A Honolulu woman who allegedly abandoned her newborn baby at Sandy Beach in April pleaded no contest Thursday to filing a false police report. Twenty-two-year-old Keala Simeona will be sentenced on the misdemeanor charge on January 16. The maximum penalty for the misdemeanor crime is a jail term of one year. She was released after posting $250 bail.